In December, further life extensions for the four generating Advanced Gas Cooled Reactor (AGR) plants were announced. Heysham 1 and Hartlepool will generate for one year longer, until 2027, and ...

Called the SMall Aspect Ratio Tokamak (SMART), this reactor is part of the University of Seville’s effort to not only make fusion energy possible, but also economically competitive for grid ...

A tiny neutrino detector has found its footing in a fresh setting — at a nuclear reactor. Conventional detectors of the subatomic particles require metric tons of material. But the new detector ...

Renditions of NANO Nuclear Energy’s newly acquired technologies: Pylon for terrestrial (bottom) and space (top) applications and the Modular Micro Reactor (MMR®) Energy System (right).

The planned construction of the next generation of nuclear reactors in France, which expects to have at least six of these, faces numerous challenges including in financing, supply chains ...

The top US nuclear regulator is on a mission to streamline approvals for new reactors and accelerate power-plant construction. “We can be more efficient,” Christopher Hanson, chairman of the ...

Now a nuclear startup wants to bury a small reactor underground, using depth as a substitute for the tons of concrete required to safeguard aboveground reactors. The company, Deep Fission ...

The very unserious company that took over the defunct Enron brand on Monday unveiled its supposedly "groundbreaking" product: the Enron Egg. But the Enron Egg is no normal egg, company ...

Undeniably, ambitions for a nuclear renaissance are thriving. The UK is building its first nuclear power station in 30 years, France plans a new fleet of 14 reactors and, in total worldwide, 100 new ...

The VVER-1,000 MWe reactor vessel for the sixth unit of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP), being built to a Russian design, is being transported to the construction site in Tirunelveli ...

TerraPower is now also supported by the US Department of Energy, which gave the company an $80 million grant in October 2020 as part of its Advanced Reactor Demonstration Project program.

Copenhagen Atomics is a Danish molten salt technology company developing mass manufacturable molten-salt reactors. The reactor type invented by Copenhagen Atomics is a thorium molten salt breeder ...